Immigration Blog

David Miliband, head of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) (and a former British cabinet minister), criticized the Trump administration in a recent op-ed for its "animus" towards the U.S. refugee resettlement program. Like many refugee advocates before him, he makes a number of false assertions as he laments the current drop in refugee admissions into the U.S.

Law 360 has published a brief article about a concrete company being fined by the Department of Labor (DOL) for underpaying H-2B unskilled cement workers (partially behind a paywall). It cites DOL as having assessed the Metropolitan Concrete Corporation of Michigan $73,647 in back pay to the workers, and $29,161 in damages, for a total of nearly $103,000.

A recent announcement from Brown University regarding its DACA students reminded me that all illegal aliens are not equal — in fact, they have a complex hierarchy of privileges that resembles the gradation of classes within the British nobility.

Mother Jones magazine has published an article about Tom Homan, acting ICE director, "ICE Cold: How a Loyal Obama Bureaucrat Became the Face of Trump's Deportation Force". It's a thinly veiled hit-piece masquerading as hipster insight, filled with partisan bias and nasty innuendo.

Under this ruling, certain burglary, indecent assault and battery, stalking, and manslaughter convictions will no longer render an alien removable.

The rebellion has now spread to San Diego County, whose supervisors today voted to follow Orange and its municipalities and to endorse the federal lawsuit against the state.

According to ICE statistics provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee, over a nine-month period in FY2017, 142 gang members that ICE was seeking to deport were released by the local law enforcement agency instead of transferred to ICE custody.

Proponents of the OPT program (Optional Practical Training) argue that it will keep the best and brightest foreign students in this country after graduation.

This is the program that provides a tax break of 8.25 percent to employers of recent alien graduates of U.S. universities. It should carry a sign that says "Americans Need Not Apply" because that tax break is not available if employers hires citizens or green card holders.

Hondurans emigrate primarily for economic reasons, not violence, according to a new survey by a Jesuit-run research and social action center in that country.

The Trump administration clearly wants to reduce international migration to the United States. So why has it taken the migration-expanding step of allowing petitioners, in many cases, to use credit cards to pay their USCIS fees?